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Google Bids On The Patent Assets of Nortel

April 5, 2011 Grant Griffiths

Google recently bid $900 million fro the patent portfolio of Nortel Networks. It has been reported the bid is an effort to defend itself against patent litigation.

Nortel is said to be in bankruptcy and this is an auction of its assets. The bid by Google may grow larger because of this too. If Google is successful in its bid to acquire Nortel, the purchase would be the third-largest purchase by Google. Small only to its payments for YouTube and DoubleClick.

For more on this, visit The New York Times

Delays for Texas Instrument at Japan Plant

March 30, 2011 Grant Griffiths

Texas Instrument has announced it is anticipating between four and six months and disruption to its chip manufacturing operations in Japan. The company’s factor in Miho which is 65 kilometers from central Tokyo was closed by the quake on March 11th. This factor is responsible for about 10 percent of TI’s output by revenue in…

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AT&T Buys T-Mobile for $39 Billion

March 20, 2011 Finis Price

AT&T has just announced an agreement to purchase T-Mobile for $39 billion which would combine two of the four largest cellphone carriers in the United States. According to CNBC, both boards agreed on the merger with AT&T financing the cash portion of the merger but will not assume any of the debt of T-Mobile USA or…

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AT&T Going After Unauthorized Tetherers

March 18, 2011 Grant Griffiths

There is a little app called MyWi which gives iPhone users the ability to tether their phones without AT&T’s permission. Apparently AT&T is taking steps to stop such unauthorized tethering by some of its users. AT&T sent a letter to tetherers requiring them to stop or be automatically charged a $20/ month DataPro plan on their…

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Apple iPad 2 sales are ‘amazing’

March 15, 2011 Grant Griffiths

That is what Apple is saying after the new iPad 2 went on sale Friday. The Loop: “Demand for the next generation iPad 2 has been amazing,” Apple spokesperson Trudy Muller, told The Loop. “We are working hard to get iPad 2 into the hands of every customer who wants one as quickly as possible.” While…

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Microsoft Announces Global Availability of Internet Explorer 9

March 14, 2011 Grant Griffiths

Microsoft Corp. today announced the launch of the latest version of the world’s most-used browser with the release of Windows Internet Explorer 9 in 40 languages at an event at the SXSW Interactive (SXSWi) conference. Internet Explorer 9 is Microsoft’s most-downloaded browser beta of all time, with more than 40 million downloads, and it has…

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Reports that Yahoo has sold Delicious for $5 Million

March 14, 2011 Grant Griffiths

There are reports today which indicate Yahoo has sold social media bookmarking service Delicious for $5 million plus. As we should all remember, the service was put on the blocks back in December. Afterwards there was a lively bidding process and it appears the bidding is over. No confirmation from Yahoo nor Delicious yet. More…

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Google Acquires Next New Networks

March 8, 2011 Grant Griffiths

It has been announced Google has acquired Next New Networks, a Web video company build around developing and distributing niche content. The purchase of Next New is tied to a new business initiative of Google’s, YouTube Next. Next New Networks was launched in 2006 by a group of former TV execs. Since that time, Next…

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IE6 Days Are Numbered

March 7, 2011 Grant Griffiths

Microsoft has stated a countdown for IE6 and Web developers around the world are rejoicing. The countdown site states that 12% of the world is using IE6. And with IE 9 nearing completion, Microsoft stated it is time for the IE6 fans to say goodbye. How the countdown will work is Microsoft plans to continue…

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